Selected Essays

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George Orwell Stefan Collini (Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature, University of Cambridge)

Selected Essays

George Orwell, Stefan Collini (Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature, University of Cambridge)

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English

Worlds Classics
21 January 2021

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary essays; Reportage & collected journalism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Oxford World's Classics

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

George Orwell was one of the most celebrated essayists in the English language, and there are quite a few of his essays which are probably better known than any of his other writings apart from Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Stefan Collini presents a collection of Orwell's longer, major essays as well as a selection of shorter pieces, arranged into three categories: Personal/Descriptive, Literary, and Political.

By: George Orwell
Edited by: Stefan Collini (Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature University of Cambridge)
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 254g
ISBN: 9780198804178
ISBN 10: 0198804172
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 21 January 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography A Chronology of George Orwell Selected Essays Shooting an elephant (1936) Inside the whale (1940) Charles Dickens (1940) Boys' weeklies (1940) The art of Donald McGill (1941) Wells, Hitler and the world state (1941) Rudyard Kipling (1942) Raffles and Miss Blandish (1944) In defence of P.G. Wodehouse (1945) Notes on nationalism (1945) The prevention of literature (1946) Decline of the English murder (1946) Politics and the English language (1946) Confessions of a book reviewer (1946) Why I write (1946) Politics vs literature: an examination of Gulliver's Travels (1946) How the poor die (1946) Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool (1947) Writers and Leviathan (1948) Explanatory Notes

Stefan Collini is Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature. After degrees at Cambridge and Yale, he taught at the University of Sussex before moving to a post in the Faculty in 1986. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a frequent contributor to The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The Nation, and other periodicals, and an occasional broadcaster.